Customizing the crop overlay

In this move I want to talk about, how…we can view and customize, the crop overlay graphic…so that we can use this to improve the way that we crop, and compose our photographs.…Let's begin by working with this image here, it's titled nate.cr2.…It's a photograph of one of my friends down in Mexico on a surf trip.…And here if we tap the R key to select the Crop Tool,…or if we click on the Crop Tool icon, you'll notice that we have…this rule of thirds overlay graphic on top of the image.…Sometimes we can use these overlay graphics to help us to…try to figure out how we might want to crop our images.…

Now you'll notice in the tool bar below we have the ability to…change the tool overlay or the way that the overlay is displayed, if…we have it on always we will always see in this case the…rule of thirds overlay or we can click on this menu we can…choose a few other options, if we select Never that will forever hide that so as…we click to drag this or to change…the composition we will just see the photograph.…

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10/15/2013

Cropping can save photos from a crooked horizon or unwanted subjects in the frame, but it can also be used to create new and interesting images. For this reason, it's closely connected to the photographic principle of composition. Join teacher and photographer Chris Orwig as he shows you how to refocus your eye and reorient your photos with cropping. Learn how to use the Photoshop, Lightroom, and Camera Raw suite of tools to straighten, remove distracting elements, fix distortion, and add creative effects.